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Immigrant Daughter

Stories You Never Told Me

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Immigrant Daughter

By: Catherine Kapphahn
Narrated by: Catherine Kapphahn
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Winner of the Center for Fiction's Christopher Doheny Award

Shortlisted for the Del Sol Press Prize

American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, 22-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known.

Traversing time and place, memoir and novel, this lyrical narrative explores the collective memory between mothers and daughters and what it means to find wholeness. It is a story where a daughter gives voice to her immigrant mother's unspoken history, and in the process, heals them both.

©2019 Catherine Kapphahn (P)2020 Audible, Inc. Biographical Fiction Coming of Age Genre Fiction Fiction Biography
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Wow. So well written. So well spoken. I was entranced from the moment I started to listen to the end where there is sadness that the story is over. I felt like I knew this family that I was a part of it. I felt every word.
Catherine, well done. My tears actually flowed freely while listening. čestitke and hvala
Paula

A heartfelt family memoir.

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I loved this sweet story of discovery - we live part of our year in Dalmatia so it was great to hear ...

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